Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with peas in the monastery garden. Mendel found that the parent plants transmitted their characteristics to their descendants in a predictable, mathematical way. When purebred red-flowered peas, for instance, are crossed with white-flowered ones, all the seeds grow into plants with red flowers. But when these red hybrid plants are crossed with each other, one-fourth of their offspring bear white flowers...
...white-flowered gene, though suppressed, is still in existence. When red hybrid flowers are mated together, each seed in the second generation has a one-in-four chance of inheriting nothing but white-flowered genes. It will then bear white flowers, just as if its parents were of pure, white-flowered stock.* The other three-fourths of the seeds will bear red flowers...
...gospel of fruit-fly genetics and its many practical applications reached young Student Beadle at the University of Nebraska, mostly through Professor Franklin D. Keim, who was working on hybrid wheat. Beadle helped Keim in summers, and when he graduated from college in 1926, Keim got him a graduate assistantship at Cornell at $750 a year. George Beadle still intended to become some sort of agricultural expert, but when he started working at Cornell with Professor Rollins Adams Emerson, founder of the ''corn school'' of genetics, he found the work so fascinating that he could...
...expect their missile will either graze the moon-and message back valuable readings on gases around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching within a matter of weeks will be a Thor-Vanguard hybrid similar to the lost missile fired from the Cape last week in a nose-cone configuration test...
...merely photograph. We try to reveal and enrich." He often starts with a folk melody, watches the company improvise while the orchestra plays it, then works out a finished dance movement and has a fully orchestrated score fitted to it. To prepare themselves for their hybrid dance styles, the go members of the company train in a special department of the Bolshoi School of Ballet...